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Hollywood cowers in fear of President Putin!

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:26 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin
© Alexei Nikolsky/ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin.
Is Hollywood cowering from their most frightening bogeyman, Vladimir Putin, or is the business of anti-Russian propaganda stronger than ever?

Los Angeles is a very strange place to live. The weather is almost always sunny, comfortable, and clear, leaving the city in a state of perpetual summer. On the rare occasion it does rain, the local media cover it as though the apocalypse were underway.

This glorious weather may sound heavenly to those who suffer with brutally humid summers or bitterly cold winters, or both, but it has a downside to it - namely, it can be terribly disorienting.

The longer you live here, the more disorienting it becomes as you are rendered incapable of remembering if something in your past occurred on the Fourth of July or Christmas Eve, as those days, and nearly every other day, look exactly the same.

This disorientation is heightened by the constant influx of beautiful young people who come to the land of milk and honey to find their fame and fortune. This yearly harvest of fresh blood combined with the interminable glorious weather leads many Angelenos to live in a state of surreality, where imagination and the real world morph into one.
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Syria summary: Consolidating the west and marching east


Moon Of Alabama
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 21:57 UTC
Syrian battle map 7/23/17
There were no major changes in the situation in Syria since our last post. Several smaller steps have further consolidated the position of the government of Syria and its allies while the positions of its enemies continue to deteriorate.

In the north-west Idleb governate and the city of Idleb saw new infighting between Ahrar al-Sham and al-Qaeda in Syria under its current moniker Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Ahrar, historically also an al-Qaeda offspring, was supported by Qatar and Turkey while al-Qaeda in Syria (aka Jabhat al Nusra aka HTS) was said to have support from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Rudiments of local CIA paid Free Syrian Army gangs are intermixed with these. Their primary task was to collect supplies from the CIA in Turkey and to distribute those to their friends in al-Qaeda and Ahrar al-Sham. Each of these groups received support in the range of at least $1 billion per year.

The spat between Qatar and Saudi Arabia mostly ended their interest in their proxies in Syria. The Trump administration decided to end the CIA support program for its FSA proxies in the north-west (but not for others elsewhere). This was a significant change of the situation for each group.
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Blue privilege: If Florida teens who watched disabled man drown were cops, they would not face charges

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
Here's proof that if the five despicable teens who taunted and filmed drowning man were cops, they would not face charges.

Cocoa Florida teens watch man drown
This week, headlines across the country lambasted the Florida teenagers for filming and taunting a disabled man as he drowned in a lake. On Friday, the Cocoa Police Department (CPD), in conjunction with the Florida State Attorney's Office, announced they are pursuing criminal charges against the five teens.

"He started to struggle and scream for help and they just laughed. They didn't call the police. They just laughed the whole time. He was just screaming... for someone to help him," Yvonne Martinez, spokeswoman for the Cocoa Police Department, told the Washington Post.

What those teens did was repugnant, disgusting, and an insult to all that is good. Their actions, or rather inactions, caused the suffering and death of an innocent life and they will have to live with that for the rest of their lives.

That being said, however, if those despicable teens had been cops, they would not have been charged at all. As the Free Thought Project has reported on numerous occasions, police officers can and will watch adults and children alike drown and not face charges.

Below are just a few examples of police officers acting just like these teens, some of them even laughing as people drown right in front of them.

Comment: 'There was no remorse, only a smirk': Group of teens film drowning man (VIDEO) - UPDATE: Charges will be filed

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Iranian deputies push to abolish the death penalty for drug-related offenses

Frud Bezhan
Radio Free Europe
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 21:01 UTC
Preparation for an execution in Nowshahr, Iran
Preparation for an execution in Nowshahr, Iran, in April 2014. The man was pardoned by relatives of the victim before he was executed.
Iranian lawmakers have proposed changes to the country's tough antidrugs laws, a move that could abolish the death penalty for some drug-related crimes.

If approved by parliament, a proposed amendment could curb the number of executions in the Islamic republic, which has one of the highest rates of capital punishment in the world.

Iran has been under mounting international pressure to curb its number of executions. Human rights groups say Iran executed at least 567 people in 2016 and nearly 1,000 in 2015, including men from Afghanistan, where the majority of illicit drugs come into Iran. Iranian officials say 70 percent of all executions in the country were for drug-related offenses.
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Number of asylum seekers leaving U.S. and crossing to Canada rises in June

Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Adler
Reuters
Fri, 21 Jul 2017 19:29 UTC
Canadian border
© Reuters / Chris Helgren
Many asylum seekers say they left the United States because they feared deportation in light of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown

The number of asylum seekers walking across the U.S. border into Canada rose in June after dropping in the previous two months, according to government figures released on Friday.

There were 884 refugee claimants who crossed the border between formal crossings and were picked up by Royal Canadian Mounted Police last month, bringing the total for the first half of 2017 to 4,345, the data showed.
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Riot police called in over St. Louis prison AC protest (VIDEO)


RT
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 20:52 UTC
Saint Louis Medium Security Institution
© FacebookSaint Louis Medium Security Institution
Protesters squared off against riot police outside the St. Louis Medium Security Institution in Duluth, Minnesota, where they were demonstrating against allegedly inhumane conditions inside the facility.

Between 100 and 150 protesters gathered outside the prison, also known as the St. Louis Workhouse, at around 7:00pm local time on Saturday. According to the event's Facebook page, the demonstrators were concerned about the poor living conditions and overheating in the jail.

"Our family, friends and others who are currently locked up awaiting trial or serving short sentences in the Workhouse are right now inside a literal tinder box because of the heat wave," the event description read. "Shut down the workhouse, the torture has gone on long enough."

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Pro-Palestinian & pro-Israeli protesters face off outside Israeli embassy in London after new security checks (VIDEO)


RT
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:34 UTC
london israel protest palestinians
© Ruptly
Pro-Israel and pro-Palestine demonstrators held opposing rallies outside the Israeli embassy in London, after Israel expanded security measures for Palestinians wishing to pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Islam's third holiest site.

Pro-Palestinian protesters were seen setting fire to Israeli flags in a video shot by Ruptly Saturday, holding up banners reading "save al-Aqsa" and chanting "shame on you!" at the Israelis and their supporters.

The pro-Israeli side, which appeared to be much smaller, quietly held up Israeli flags in response.
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Survivors of rape during the Bosnian war speak of their suffering and healing 25 years on

Sue Turton
The Independent
Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
Dr Branka Antic-Stauber
Dr Branka Antic-Stauber, who counsels 150 survivors: ‘Justice is so difficult to achieve’
It ranks among the worst atrocities in modern European history: the genocidal rape of Bosnian Muslims by Serbs during the Balkan conflict. Horrifically, tens of thousands of survivors now must live next to their rapists, seeing them daily. Sue Turton meets women still living with incalculable suffering a quarter of a century on.

Twenty-five years have passed since Rana was raped but she remembers like it was yesterday. It was 6pm on the 9 May 1992 when Serbian soldiers attacked her Bosnian village in Brcko District, burnt down hers and many of her neighbors' homes and took her to a forest.

She recounts the day that changed her life forever, her hair neatly tied back, loop earrings and rimless glasses, suggesting an organized life but her scrambled thoughts tumbling out say otherwise.

"There were many soldiers in the field," she remembers. "One of them told me to undress but I said no. He hit me and pushed me to the ground. It was the same man who had set fire to my house. Then he raped me. The other soldiers stood around and watched. He told them to rape me too and so I was raped again. Twice."

Comment: These courageous people are in our thoughts and prayers.

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Wisconsin company will be the first to microchip its employees

Josh Rosenthal
KSTP News
Sat, 22 Jul 2017 17:12 UTC
microchip implant
A Wisconsin company is about to become the first in the U.S. to offer microchip implants to its employees.

Yes, you read that right. Microchip implants.

"It's the next thing that's inevitably going to happen, and we want to be a part of it," Three Square Market Chief Executive Officer Todd Westby said.

The company designs software for break room markets that are commonly found in office complexes.

Just as people are able to purchase items at the market using phones, Westby wants to do the sam thing using a microchip implanted inside a person's hand.

"We'll come up, scan the item," he explained, while showing how the process will work at an actual break room market kiosk. "We'll hit pay with a credit card, and it's asking to swipe my proximity payment now. I'll hold my hand up, just like my cell phone, and it'll pay for my product."

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Net neutrality battle rages: FCC swamped with 11mn comments, twice as many as 2015


RT
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 09:49 UTC
laptops - net neutrality
© Robert Schlesinger / Global Look Press
The US government has been flooded with more than 10 million comments about rolling back net neutrality regulations.

Net neutrality is the principle that the internet is free, open, and accessible, meaning internet users can access any sites they want, and internet service providers (ISPs) can't block or slow down content and websites as they choose.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to reverse net neutrality rules it passed in 2015, which prevent ISPs from blocking and prioritizing certain content online over others.

Comment: For more information:

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